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Sunday, 17 December 2017

Well here we are at the last Anything Goes Challenge for 2017 over at Morgans ArtWorld Challenge blog. I don't know about you but 2017 has been a pretty full on year for me and I am looking forward to perhaps winding down for Christmas and New Year and hopefully having a more relaxed 2018, but hey we will see how it goes. Here is my project:

Card Tip:

it always amazes me how different a card can look when you change the colour scheme. I created a card last year with the same image with a completely different colour scheme, here they are side by side:

Isn't it amazing how different the the cards look with the different colour schemes, one intense and vibrant, the other soft and pastely. So next time your feeling without mojo, grab an image you have created with before but change up the colour scheme, you wont' regret it.

Saturday, 18 November 2017

Its time for another Anything Goes challenge over at Morgan's ArtWorld and to be honest I am starting to be in the Christmas card mood but I wanted to use a non Christmas image and I thought one of Morgans gorgeous fairies would fit the bill perfectly. This is what I created:

Friday, 17 November 2017

Hi everyone, over at Diecut Divas this month we talking about being thankful with this months sponsor A2zScrapbooking. I decided to to utulize a brand new Hero Arts stamp set, not being thankful but celebrating a birthday. Here is my project.

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Its time for a brand new challenge over at Diecut Divas. With November comes Thanksgiving Day so this month we are talking about all things thankful, including what your thankful for as well as thank you cards. We also have a brand new sponsor this month: A2Zscrapbooking, how stock a great range of Hero Arts digital stamps which is what I used in my project.

Like most card makers I like to make cards for the individual person and individual purpose but its always nice to have some cards in your stash to use. With this in mind I have taken advantage of using a digital stamp and created a set of Thank you cards. These came in handy for Teachers Appreciation day for both of my kids to give to their teachers.

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To easily create this set of cards, I have used a simple card layout, lovely bright colours and the addition of the beads in the centre add an interesting aspect of texture.

Sunday, 10 September 2017

You saw right - its new release time over at Morgans ArtWorld. This month we are getting in touch with our animal instincts with this two images that will suit any card occasion.

Here is my project using those gorgeous Pandas.

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I usually use Distress Inks for making grass and sky backgrounds behind my copic coloured images. Unfortunately I found out the hard way this wasn't going to work with this image, I kept getting green ink on those gorgeous white heads. So I still used my circle die as a template but I used my copic markers to create the backgrounds. I still got my softness but with added control.

Its time for a new anything goes challenge over at Morgans ArtWorld and with Father's Day just around the corner I thought I would take advantage of Morgan's image of a fisherman for this project. Here is what I created.

Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Over at Diecut Divas this month it is all about Christmas in July and for alot of people Christmas means an annual holiday with their families - so with this in mind I have created a holiday card using another cute Stampworkz Toread Nymph available at Frantic Stampers.

Sunday, 16 July 2017

over at Diecut Divas this month the theme is Christmas in July, and with a fantastic sponsor like Frantic Stamper the options are endless. This month I wanted to create some Christmas cards with non traditional images as such, and I had fallen in love with these Nymphs so definitely wanted to use them. Here is my project:

Card Tip:

This project shows you that you don't always need a traditional Christmas image for a Christmas card, start looking at all your images as possibilities.

Thursday, 25 May 2017

I have another May flowers inspiration project highlighting Janes Doodles for Diecut Divas. Its pretty gloomy here at moment with Winter so I wanted to keep it nice and bright, this is what I came up with.

Card Tip:

A great way to highlight an image is to use a frame created from die cuts, it also adds a bit of interest if you have the frame going off the page.

Thursday, 18 May 2017

This month over at Diecut Divas we are talking about May Flowers (trees, grass, and plants all count too) with the amazing sponsor Janes Doodles. Here is my inspiration project.

Card Tip:

Digital Stamps are just like rubber stamps, you have the ability to multi stamp the image in a row like this, instead of using ink, you use a word program to copy and paste them. It is easier to use a PNG file vs JPG file as they have a transparent background but you do need to play with the text wrapping setting for this to work.

Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Its inspiration time over at Diecut Divas and this month we wont to see all your birthday cards, super easy right. Here is my project:

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I have a friend of mine who's birthday is coming up but is also going through a hard time at the moment so I wanted to convey two things with this card, solution - have your sentiment start on the front and continue on into the inside; this way you can say twice as much.

Monday, 10 April 2017

Its new release time over at Morgans ArtWorld and this month we are channelling the little girls in our lives. These two Kitten Queen fairies are perfect from the happy birthdays to the "just saying hello" cards for any little girl to enjoy. These images are available now in the shop.